AIRPOST JOURNAL

NOVEMBER 19 4 8 VOLUME XX - NO. 2

U.S. AIR MAIL

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• Latest Air Letter Fcr~n from South Africa is for Internal Use Only by MAJOR IAN C. MORGAN possibly more. The Montreal printing and the Toronto printing are definitely known • at least for the lOc. It also appears that ~UI[ ore and more po.stal admin~tra- the method of production by the two 1\"' J tions are adoptmg the light contractors is not the same. The Mont­ weight air letter sheet thereby providing real printing appears to be done in one a cheap and fast means of communica­ operation and the Toronto printing in tion between the distant outposts of the two. Evidence of the double operation is earth. the fact that a sheet has recently been The past several months have discovered with the stamp completely brought many new items not only from uninked (known as an albino print) but countries which heretofore have had no the rest of the form is regular in every air letter service but design changes and way. other modifications in the sheets of those Mr. C. G. B. Stuart of Toronto reports countries which have had this type of the discovery of ninety-nine sheets of the service for several years. 15c value small size in so-called inverted The following notes arranged by position. A word of explanation is neces­ country serve as a chronicle of new is­ sary about this - the stamp is not printed sues and additionally are a channel for upside down in relation to the rest of the recording certain observations about the sheet but the die cutting has been done air letter services and the postal station­ incorrectly, the printed sheet being fed ery of the various coun~ies involved: into the die cutting machine - the re­ CANADA · verse of normal As a consequence the Both the lOc sheet and the 15c sheet finished sheet is cut in such shape that in the smaller format are now generally it cannot be folded or used as an air let­ available; as a consequence the original ter sheet. We are shown the albino print larger form, which was unsatisfactory, is through the courtesy of Aeriel Stamp now disappearing from post offices. Dur­ Company, Montreal. ing a recent trip we visited over a hundred post offices but managed to pick CHINA up but forty-seven forms in all in the old \Ve illustrate this month a new and type. It is evident that the new types are attractive form from China. The stamp the product of at least two printers, or is in the upper left-hand corner instead

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AIR POST JOURNAL AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY Entered as second-class matter, February 10, 1932, a~ the post office at Albion. Pa.• under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. NOVEMBER, 1948 - VOL. XX, NO. 2 - ISSUE 223 - 25c PER COPY 40 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

• China's' Newest Air Letter Form Has Stamp at the Left of upper right-hand corner and the cently been reduced from 100 Pf. to 60 Chinese characters read from bottom to Pf. Although none of these revised value top of the sheet. The sheet is on good sheets have been seen, we understand quality paper and is printed in blue. that the current sheets have been given Thanks to. Albert N. Brown of San Fran- · a hand-stamped overprint reducing them cisco for showing us this. to 60 Pf. and, further, that an entirely EGYPT new sheet imprinted properly with the From Judge Magham Bey of Alexandra, new rate has also been issued. We await Egypt, comes a new and attractive air confirmation of both of these statements. letter sheet. The sheet is in the same for­ GOLD COAST mat as heretofore and, as before, it is An attractive new sheet in the British printed in purple brown on white. How­ Empire format is at hand imprinted in ever, the new sheet bears a twenty-five yellow with a 6d stamp in the same de­ mills stamp in the current airpost stamp sign as the adhesive of that value of the design. current series. We illustrate this sheet. GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN The air letter sheet in use in this It appears that the 6d Olympic Games countrv is modeled after that in use in sheets are no longer available at most the Ui:iited States except that the lozenges post offices. There was apparently but around the edge are completely blue one distribution and the quantity printed · rather than alternating red and blue. was only sufficient to last until the There is no stamp in the upper right­ Games were over. hand comer but each sheet bears a print­ INDIA ed inscription "Taxe percue 100 Pf - Completelr unannounced and unex­ Deutsche Post" in two lines contained pected is a new air letter sheet for this within a box. The sll;eets are printed in country restricted for inland use. It is blue on a mottled stipple or overlay the same style and shape as the previous which includes once on the front of each air letter but is executed in salmon on sheet the posthorn which is the present gray paper stock of the usual quality. symbol of the German Postal Depart­ Instead of being inscribed "Air Letter" ment. The value label described above at left, it is inscribed "Inland Air Letter". is printed in red. While not visible to the The stamp is also an innovation in that naked eye, but particularly noticeable it is a completely new design showing when two sheets are carefully· compared, · plane in flight and the inscription "India there appears to be two separate types of postage". The sheet has a valu~ of two these sheets, depending upon whether annas as compared with the six annas they originate in the British Zone or the value of the ·sheet to be used for inter­ American Zone. The printing on those national air letter correspondence. Also from the Birtish Zone is noticeablv at hand from India is a four anna post­ smaller than on the sheets dispatched card, a two and one-half anna inland air­ from the American Zone. Word is at · mail envelope and a twelve anna sur­ hand to the effect that the rate has re- charged on fourteen annas airmail en- NOVEMBER, 1948 41

• An AUractive Sheet from Gold Coast is in :the U. K. Standard Type velope for international use. These latter Our own feeling is that it is, unfortunate­ do not presently come within the scope ly, less attractive than the earlier sheet, of this column but at a later date we although it cannot be denied that the hope to include all items of aero postal sheet is striking and will certainly re­ stationery. ceive prompt handling because it liVOuld LIBERIA be difficult for any postal clerk tQ miss Paul N ewm.an of Miami, Florida shows seeing it! us the new Liberian sheet which consists UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA :n of the stamp hand-stamped in purple on Also intended for internal use only, a blank British Colonial type form. This we illustrate the new type sheet which is said to be the second issued by this is very attractive, printed in reddish country, an earlier sheet being similar purple on gray paper, the reverse of but on ordinary white paper. which is imprinted with a green overlay MOZAMBIQUE reading "Union of South Africa - Letter It is increasingly evident that there are Card" repeated - alternating in both many various photos included in the English and Afrikaans. As with all the sheets for this country. With each mail, sheets of this Dominion, it is issued in our correspondent in Mozambique, Sr. two forms alternating in the precedence Virgilio Netto, manages to send us a few which is given the two official languages, new ones. We hope to have full details i. e. one. form is foscribed "Letter Card­ on the available varieties at an early date. Brief Kaart" while the other form is in­ NETHERLANDS scribed "Brief Kaart - Letter Card". Paul Newman of Miami, Florida, also However, the stamp which has been advises us that a new air letter sheet for completely redesigned and which is in­ the use of the Army is on issue. It is in scribed in both languages is the same for the same shape and format. as before, E!ach type of form. printed on white paper, blue on the in­ 0 c 0 side, but a newly designed lOc stamp By the time this goes to press the new appears in the upper right-hand corner. Air Letter sheet Catalogue will be well PHILIPPINES under way. This year it will only include Due to the fact that the existing stock air letter forms and P.O.W. cards. How­ of current air letters was destroyed in ever, next year we hope to include all air­ a fire, a reprinting was required. This mail stationery which bears imprinted time the new air letter is still in the same stamps. format but is on pink paper with the Will all collectors in their respective usua] overlay reading "Philippine Foreign countries please forward to the. Editor Air Letter". Inscriptions are in red and all details regarding past issues particul­ the stamp in upper right is now printed arly as to dates of issue and quantities in blue. In fact the whole sheet is the issued where possible. All will be given exact reverse of the previous emission. credit for information turned in. AIRS of the MONTH • By AL TON J. BLANK 1089 Winston Rd., So. Euclid 21, Ohio • "-'lV ill the promised 4 cents air the features of Carlos Duran who was '~ mail postal card have as a president in 1889 and from whose term companion a newly designed 6 cents air­ of office a new era is dated. mail stamp? That is the question that is ECUADOR yet unanswered officially by our Post Office Department, but we believe that A five value set reaches us that honors for the time being the present design the Alphabetization group in this will be utilized with value label changed. country. The design common to all shows Unofficially the word is out that the de­ an instructor out in the open with a sign of the postal card will feature an group of citizens instructing them in th\ language. Values are 40c and 70c, and l, American Eagle with outstretched wings. 5, and 10 sucres. Colors are red, violet, Both items ar~ needed by January 1 blue, green and brown. The issue was en­ when new rates go into effect. graved and printed in Rome. Afr mail stamp news from other lands is rather sparse. Accordingly the column I. E. Ray The long awaited Eeuador Roosevelt will be relatively short this month. set is finally at hand. Handsomely print­ BOLIVIA ed by Waterlow and Son, London in two The Catholic Congress set is at hand colors, values are 60c green and brown, thru the courtesy of Ludwig Hom of La lS ,rose and black, l.50S, green acover of two additional values to the current set. Issued September 30, SPAIN 1948 are a lOc olive green portraying For the San Sebastian stamp show a Juan Mora Fernandez - the first presi­ burlage overprint was applied to the five dent in 1824 and a 15c violet showing (Continued on page 44) NOVEMBER, 1948 43

-Stamps for Illustration, Courtesy F. w. . KESSLER 44 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL AIRS OF THE MONTH- (Continued from page 42) • When You Think Of ... low values of the current Juan de la BUYING OR SELLING Cierva series. The overprint reads "1948 San Sebastian Exposicion Nacional de AIR MAILS Filatelica". Further details would be ap­ Think of H. R. Harmer, pio­ preciated. neers in selling of Air Mail A new 2 Ptas red is at hand and we Collections by auction. illustrate it. Details are lacking. SPANISH MOROCCO Vendors: Two handsome bi-colored adhesives, Request booklet "Concerning 25c red and black and 5 + 1 Pts, red and your stamps." blue are for the Tuberculosis fund. We illustrate both of them. These stamps Collectors: are not inscribed for Air Mail but bear a plane in the design. Their status needs Request free illustrated auc­ clarifying. tion catalogues. SYRIA· H. R. HARMER, Five provisionals have been provided Inc. by surcharging the unneeded values of THE ROOSEVELT AUCTIONEERS the present series. "2.50" appears on the 32 East 57th Street 3p red and 16p orange showing grazing New York 22, N. Y. sheep; "25" on 200p brown showing the Plaza 3-6482 pilars at Kanaquat; and "50" on the 300p red brown and 500p olive depicting the over mountains. The additional 1000 Mosque 'of Sultan Ibrahim. The over­ dracmae green value of the Greek vic­ print is in black on all but the "25" tory set shows paratroops descending which is in red ink. from planes in the historic attack on House of Philately Crete in 1941. A 10 bogshas in violet TRIESTE and black has been added to Yemen's admission to the United Nations set il-· The "A.M.G.F.T.T." overprint has lustrated last month. been applied in black to the 1000 lire value recently issued by Italy, and des­ cribed last month. • Also for a philatelic exhibition held in CAB GIVES SEATTLE-HAWAII the city a special set was released con­ ROUTE TO PAN AMERICAN sisting of the lOL red, 25L brown and 5L purple bearing the same overprint in • raised letters. A posthorn with the date Many new potential market and pleas­ "1948" also appears in the overprint. We ure travel areas will be opened to busi­ illustrate the 50L. ness, industry and the tourist of the " •" " Pacific Northwest now that the Civil So much for the airmail stamps. There Aeronautics Board has granted to Pan are a number of interesting additions to America Airways direct Clipper service the plane stamps category. 'We have re­ between Portland and Seattle and cently seen pictures of the Roumanfan Hawaii, Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice Presi­ aviation communications set which shows dent and Traffic Sales Manager, said re­ a 2 lei plus 2 lei blue Sailplane, 5 plus 5 cently. He said the company is re;;i.dy to violet altoplane, 8 plus 8 carmine tractor start the new service as soon as planes and plane? and 10 plus 10 brown plane and crews are ready. THIS MONTH FOREIGN FIRST FLIGHTS We offer below a sampling of :the large varie:l:y of Pioneer and Firs:t Flights foreign covers acquired in our recent purchase. As usuaL we invite inquiries on i:tems not listed. Also, as usual, :these covers are guaranteed authentic with an unconditional 30 day money back offer. Berkshire catalogue numbers re­ ferred :to are :those of :the 1931 edition, A.A.C, num­ bers are :l:hose of :the 1940 edition. We s:l:ill have a very few Greece: Firs:t Flight and Zeppelin covers from previous adver:tisemen:ts if you wri:te :today. NEXT MONTH: FAM's Uem # Net l Australia, Berk. #32, cat. $1.75, first flight Adelaide- Perth, franked with Cl. .7S 2 Cuba AAC #3, first flight West Indian Aerial Ex­ press Santiago-San Juan or Port Au Prince, Feb. 24, 1948, cat. $3.00 with #C2. .7S 3 Dominican Republic, Berk. # 5, Santo Domingo- Santiago, cat. $3.25 with #El, scarce. l,00 4 Haiti, Berk. #9, AAC Lindberghiana #115, cat. $2.50, Feb. 6, 1928. ,SO S Haiti, Berk. #11, Inaugural West Indian Aerial Ex­ press Port Au Prince-Santiago, Feb. 28, 1928, cat. ~~ ~ 6 Kenya, Kisumu-Athens, First Flight via Imperial · Airways, March 10, 1931 (see Berk. Greece #46), very scarce. l.SO 7 Mexico, AAC #13, Mexico-Matamoros, carried by Lindbergh March 9, 1929, cat. $1.50. ,SO 8 Panama,, First Day Scott #256, Lindberghiana AAC #179, Jan. 9, 1928, cat. $5.00. 1,00 9 Persia, Berk. #4, Teheran-Bushire, April 20, 1928, franked with Cl (2), C4 or C2, C3 (2), cat. $4.50, scarce. 2.00 10 Persia, Berk. #12, Teheran-Bagdad, April 9, 1929. 1,00 11 Persia, Berk. #21, Djask-Athens via Imperial, only 121 ,carried, April 1930, cat. $5.00. 2.00 12 Switzerland, AAC #32, Special Flight Cards, June 1924, Romanshorn-Zurich with Sanabria #5 (.30), S015 ($1.00). l.2S 13 Switzerland, AAC #51, Military Flight, Dubendorf- St. Gall, cat. $2.00. 1.00 I. S. GOODMAN 72 Branch Brook Drive Belleville, N. J. British and European Delieopter Mail Serviee • by JAMES WOTHERSPOON • ()))ritish European Airways inaugur­ The first public mail to be accepted for ]l(})) ated Britain's first helicopter ser­ flight, was on a special flight between vice on June l, 1948. Operating from The Hague and Brussels on November Peterborough the route serves villages in 5, 1947. Covers received a special cachet, Norfolk and Suffolk. The machine used in mauve, depicting a Sikorsky type was a Westland Sikorsky, and was piloted machine, with "Per Speciale Vlucht Hef­ by ex Battle of Britain pilot Johnnie schroefveigtug. s'Gravenhage - Brussel." Thielinan. The service operates from in circle. On the return flight from Brus­ Peterborough to Great Yarmouth via sels, November 6, a special cancel was Kings Lynn, Wells, Sheringham, Cromer, used on all mail, "First Flight, Belgium - Norwich, Thetford, Diss, and Harleston. Holland, By Helicopter" in French and On the return flight the mute is via Flemish. Lowestoft, Beccles, Norwich and Dere­ On February 7, 1948, an emergency ham. Mail is dropped only on outward flight was made to the Wolf Rock Light­ flight, and on return flight mail is picked house, laying off the English coast at up for distribution from Peterborough. Lands End. Due to storms the &upply Departure from Peterborough was 10 a.m. ship could not approach to land supplie~ and from Great Yarmouth, 5:45 p.m. The and mail to the three keepers, who were service means a 12 to 14 hour speed up weeks overdue for relief. A Westland in the delivery of mails to the villages Sikorsky flying through a gale succeeded concerned; no special air fee is needed, in hovering over the lighthouse and low­ all ordinary mail being carried. It is a ering the supplies and mail. great pity that no special cachet or post­ During the winter months of 1947 and mark was used on mail on this historic 1948, the British GPO have been operat­ occasion in the carriage of mails in ing a dummy mail run to lonely villages Britain. on the Somerset moors. The idea is to test the reliability of the helicopter, and Helicopter Mail In Europe the efficiency of the service during bad With helicopter mail routes well weather. The tests have now proved about 96 per cent efficient. established in the United States it might perhaps be of interest to readers During February and March, the to know of the few occasions when heli­ Swedish Post Office flew mails by heli­ copter to various islands cut off from the copter mail has been carried in the Euro­ pean countries. The first occasion on mainland by the freeze up of the sea. which helicopter mail was carried occur­ ed in Scotland. During the residence at Balmoral Castle of the Royal Family, LIFE MEMBERSHIP private and official mails were flown A.A.M.S. - $50.00 from London to Aberdeen by planes of the King's Flight. At Aberdeen the mail • was placed aboard helicopters of the Join This Select RAF and flown to Balmoral Castle. The service was operated in return direction Group NOW. also, and lasted about three weeks. NOVEMBER, 1948 47 Swiss Airpost Society Stages Successful Flight Cover Exhibit •

• View of the Air Mail Exhibition of Trans-Oceanic and Historical Flights Held at Geneva under the Auspices of the CLUB PHILATELIQUE ET AEROPOSTAL. Photo by Studio Photo - Lacroix, courtesy of A. A. M. S. Member R. Archinard, Internation- ally Known Editor and Collector.

FIRST POST WAR Balloonist, was the starter. Commemorative cards were printed, BALLOON FLIGHT showing 5 balloons assembled for the start. • The Dutch Balloon; carrying our mem­ by DR. MAX KRONSTEIN ber J. Boesman as balloonist, landed in Germany near the Protestant Educational • InstittSion, Hephata. The flown balloon ~o\ n August 22, 1948 the town of cards received in addition to the marking ~ P}J Sittard in the Province of Lim­ of the school, a German 15 P£ennig b~rg near the Dutch-Belgium frontier, franking and the postal cancellation of commemorated its 700th Anniversary. Dusseldorf dated August 23, 1948. On this occasion the Haagsche Balloon The cards did not arrive in this count­ Club arranged the 2nd balloon competi­ ry until September 20. tion for the "Coupe Andries Blitz" with It appears that this is the first post­ Dutch, Belgian, French and Swiss par­ war balloon card bearing a German can­ ticipants. Prof. A. Picard, the noted cellation.

AM #86 ADDITION OF GREEN the first mail from Kansas City for Mem­ BAY, WISC. Getting back to the Feeder phis via this route handling via Flight Routes, we have to report the addition of #91 707 pieces of mail from the Kansas Green Bay, Wisc., to AM #86, operated by City post office and 218 pieces from the Wisconsin-Central Airlines, Inc. The in­ Kansas City AMF. In view of the fact that itial Southbound flight from Green Bay the first flight from Kansas City to Mem­ to this route was made via Flight #4 on phis via this extension did not stop at October 1st in charge of Captain Earl A. Springfield. the inaugural South or East­ Barron and First Officer Wm. A. Hickman bound flight from Springfield to Memphis and handled 2609 pieces of mail of which was not made until Flight #93 left Spring­ 2559 were philatelic. The initial North­ field later that day, handling 871 pieces bound flight from Green Bay was made on of mail of which 299 pieces were for col­ the same date in charge of Captain Robt. lectors. This later flight was in charge of J. Ceronsky and First Officer Howard F. Captain J. G. Kelly and First Officer A. Romme and handled 1094 pieces of mail A. Brockland. No offcial cachets furnished of which 1069 were philatelic. Official at any point, although Chicago and South­ cachet, typical of Route #86, was applied ern furnished unofficial cachets for Little to all first flight covers in green ink. Rock, Springfield, and Kansas City AMF.

AM #72 - ADDITION OF POUGH­ KEEPSIE; N. Y. Poughkeepsie, receiving COMING AT AUCTION •••••• air mail service for the first time, was add­ ed to Route #72 on October 1st. The car­ 11 rier on this route is Colonial Airlines, Inc. The Dr. John N. Lowe" Sale The inaugural Northbound flight of this service was made via Flight #34 and handled 3901 pieces of mail all of which and other fine properties were reported as collector material. The inaugural Southbound flight was made (Stamps and covers) via Flight #35 and handled 900 pieces of mail of which it is reported that 855 pieces were for collectors. Captain Joseph Colom­ -0- bo and First Officer J. Burgio were in charge of both . In view of the fact RE 0 UE ST FREE CATALOGS that these disp es involved the first air mail from Poughkeepsie an official cachet was applied to all first flight mail in -O- purple ink. W A NTED - WANTED AM #1 - ADDITION OF BRADFORD, Airposts

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Albion, Pa., February 10, 1932, under the Act of March 3, 1879 . The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not conducted• for profit. The Editor, Business Manager, and all other editors, feature writers and contributors serve gratis and without compensation of any kind. All receipts from advertising, subscriptions and contributions are applied directly to the betterment of the magazine and the promotion of aero-philately.

EDITOR L.B. GATCHELL - 6 The Fairway, Upper Montclair, N. J, BUSINESS MANAGER GRACE CONRATH - Albion, Penn'a ASSISTANT EDITORS ALTON J, BLANK - 1089 Winston Rd., So. Euclid 21, Ohio ERNEST A. KEHR - 230 West 41 Street, New York 18, N. Y. GLEN W. NAVES - 930 N. Church St., Spartanburg, S. C. ART EDITOR EDWIN L. HASTRY DEPARTMENT EDITORS R. LEE BLACK - Interrupted Flight Cover News FLORENCE L. KLEINERT - A. A. M. S. Chapter News IAN C. MORGAN - Air Letter Sheets RICHARD L. SINGLEY - F. A. M. Air Mail Routes WILLIAM R. WARE - Contract Air Mail Routes WILLIAM T. WYNN - Dedication Covers Assistant Editor ALTON J. BLANK also conducts "Airs of the Month" Department ASSOCIATE EDITORS FRANCIS J. FIELD F. W. KESSLER GEORGE D. KINGDOM DR. MAX KRONSTEIN WILLIAM M. STUART JAMES WOTHERSPOON

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THE AIRPOST JOURNAL has been published under the auspices of THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY since October, 1931. It has reached its high place of usefulness to the hobby primarily through the genius, industry and devotion of the late WALTER J. CONRATH - - successively Business Manager and Editor. To his memory are the future issues of the JOURNAL gratefully dedicated.

WHERE TO WRITE Correspondence concerning advertis­ Department Editors may be written ing, new and renewal subscriptions, direct at the addresses printed at the - back numbers and bound volumes, top of their columns. All general edi­ address changes and other matters of torial copy and communications on all circulation, business matters of all other matters should be sent to the kinds and all remittances should be personal attention of the Editor at sent direct to the Publication Office at 6 The Fairway ALBION, PENN'A UPPER MONTCLAIR, N. J. MESSAGE • To the Members of the American Air Mail Society:

New York City on October 9th was the locale of the semi-annual officers' meet­ ing of the American Air Mail Society held for the purpose of transacting the business and affairs of the Society. The following officers were present: Past Presidents George W. Angers, L. B. Gatchell, and George D. Kingdom; Vice-presidents Louis S. Davis, John P. V. Heinmuller, and Ernest A. Kehr; Director Laura Le Vesque; Sales De­ partment Manager Charles P. Porter and your president.

Vice president Kehr, just back from Switzerland, gave an interesting account of the highlights of the recently concluded IMABA exhibition at Basel. O{: special interest to us was the award to the AIR POST JOURNAL of an official certificate recognizing the function it performs so ably for the American Air Mail Society and aero-philately in general.

Sales Manager Charles P. Porter proposed a plan to enable the Sales Department to operate more efficiently thus giving better service to the buyer and to the seller and making it more useful to the membership. It was emphasized that the complete co-operation of the membership is essential to the proper operation of the Sales Department.

Editor Gatchell, beseiged with many requests from members for up to date in­ formation on AIR LETTER SHEETS, proposed that a special catalogue embracing all Air Letter Sheets known to date be compiled and published, to be sold for the nominal fee of $1. This phase of air mail collecting has come to the fore in leaps and bounds. Your officers authorized the publication and recommended that work on this project, already well advanced, should be completed at once.

Editor Gatchell reported favorable progress on the production of Volume II of the AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE and stated that, barring unforseen circum­ stances, distribution would be made next Spring.

A thoroughly constructive meeting relating to Society business was held even though many of those present traveled hundreds of miles to participate and others gave up seats on the 50 yard line on that Saturday afternoon to be present at the meeting. The membership joins me in thanking the officers, both those who were present and those who were unavoidably absent, but who recorded their views by mail for their continued loyalty and progressive interest in the affairs of the American Air Mail Society;

Respectfully,

M. 0. WARNS, President. 12A~ [)()M ~()Tm=§ • from the Editor's Desk • • A. ustria is to the fore with a new light weight air envelope. A one schilling stamp in the design illustrated is in the upper right-hand comer as well as a box space for such additional franking as may be necessary. A printed label "Mit Flug­ post Par A vion" is in the lower left­ hand corner. The entire letter is executed in blue on a gray mottled paper stock. The traditional lozenges, now universally that they are more properly collected used to designate air mail service, are used - with which we fully agree. In our around the .outer border of the envelope. collection we are trying to get two ex­ This new emission is sent us with the amples of each sheet, one unused in its courtesy of the Austrian Postal Adminis­ beautiful pristine state, and the· other tration ~hrough Edivin Mueller of New showing the actual postage usage for York. The illustration is through the which it was intended. Please do not courtesy of Ernest A. Kehr. besiege ·Mr. Konwiser for these items - "'" 0 0 like mo.st of the rest of us he wants to Your editor was happy to greet several know where to get them, and has none members of the Jack Knight Air Mail for sale or trade. Society while stopping off in Chicago en­ ~ ~ 0 route to New Orleans on a recent trip. Speaking of air letter sheets, Albert We were joined by President Warns and Brown of San Francisco shows us what is Secretary Degler from Milwaukee. The perhaps the earliest example of this type local group included Vice President Perry of postal stationery. Although unstamped Nahl, Earl Wellman, Harold Dermody, it is of particular interest as the fold plan Edward Benson, V. H. Rohwedder, Ted and format is similar to that used for air Light, and ~thers of the Chicago group. letters today although the sheet itself is An interesting and profitable discussion considerably larger. Issued by The Varney was had concerning which the member­ Air Lines in 1927, the folded sheet ship will learn more at a later date.· measures 4lh" x 8" and has the familiar 0 ~ 0 red, white and blue stnping across the "Man Bites Dog!" To every newspaper center with the words "Via Air Mail" in man that is a meaningful expression. In the center of the white stripe. In the up­ plain English, it means News of unusual per left-hand comer are the words "Air­ character. Not only is it News but is is gram" in a specially designed trademark­ extremely gratifying to followers of our ed label underneath which are the words hobby to learn that such a well known "Straight To The East". Space does not philatelist as Harry Konwiser flops for permit us a description of the text on the the new and fascinating branch of aero­ reverse of the form. This is truly an in­ philately the collection of air letter teresting "forefunner" . sheets and aero postal stationery. As is ~ ~ ~ well known to most of our readers, Harry Albert Brown also shows us an interest­ Konwiser is the accepted authority on ing record flight cover mailed from Mis­ stampless covers and postal data in con­ awa in Japan to Minneapolis on the first nection with covers of all kinds. He is a anniversary of the United States Air prolific writer and author. Harry writes Force Global Air Operations. The cover us that he finds a great deal of fascina­ is cancelled at A.P.0. 919 on September tion in these colorful letter sheets from 17, cancellation being placed over a le the many parts of the earth. He thinks stamp merely to record the date of de- NOVEMBER. 1948 53 parture. The arrival cancellation of Min­ neapolis, Minnesota 9:30 p. m. Septem­ ber 18 is applied over a 5c air mail stamp on the face of the cover, at which time the cover was entrusted to the United States mails for delivery to desti­ nation. The cover bears a printed cachet reading "First Anniversary of the United (I) United States & British Horth Americ:a, c;omplete States Air Force Global Air Operations with 1,000 illustrations; , . (2) From Oversea Bases to the U. S. A." in Airmail Stamps; (3) British Empire; (4) Modern Europe: four lines and is signed by Captain W. A. (5) Stamp Col/ec:tor's Annual Buckley and Lt. W. J. Holden. Catalog (albums, packets, supplies, etc.) with complete "Guide to Stamp Collecting" PANAGRA MARKS• ANNIVERSARY and Invaluable "Stamp Find­ er". Each catalog 128 or more pa;es, profusely illus­ • trated, wonderfully Informa­ Pan American-Grace Airways (PAN- tive, listin; fine stamps at AGRA), the pioneer lJ. S.-flag airline money-saving prices. Each sent which operates the fastest long distance for only fOc to coYer malllng. air transport operation in the Western Hemisphers, celebrated its 20th anniver­ H. E. HARRIS & CO. sary on September 13. W orlcls Largest Stamp Firm The Airpost ] ournal is in receipt of an attractive cover from Panagra's office at 30 Transit Bldg., Boston, Mass. Lima, Peru which commemorates the Anniversary. It bears an appropriately in­ scribed cachet, applied in black. First to operate scheduled commercial .In two decades of uninterrupted ~c.rvice along the west coast of South scheduled service Panagra has flown more :\ inerica when it began its operation than 640,000,000 passenger miles and -1ith a 600-mile flight between Lima and carried 715,830 passengers. Last year, ':"alara, Peru, Panagra today has a net­ the airline flew 106,691,000 passenger ·-,ork of 9,000 route miles serving eight mile5, and carried 111,607 passengers Latin American countries: Panama, Col­ and 13,780,614 ton miles of revenue ombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, traffic. •Chile and Argentina. ·

e Special Vignette and Cachets Used on Covers Carried on the Special Flight. Cairo-Basel in Connection with the IMABA Exhibition.

-Photo b y ERNEST A. KEHR COVER ALBUMS

LONG DELUXE COVER ALBUM: The kind that appeals to ,most aero-philatelists: This Album is 16¥2 x 10% inches overall; has 50 jet black heavy pages, screw-post binding in a beautiful Fabrikoid pair of sturdy covers. Each page in­ terleaved with glassine, so that you may mount up fo 400 covers in all. Any size covers, clippings, etc. can be mount- ed according fo your taste. Price ...... $ 4.00

That's how it's done! You're as close to "Th~ Department Store of Philately" as your mailbox or post office. Whatever your philatelic • KODAPAK COVER ALBUM: An "envelope type" Album wishes may be, it's a simple matter of dropping a note to Long and size 71A x 5% inches overall. A pocket for each cover letting Long help you however you wish! (with 70 pockets) nicely arranged...... $ 5.00 * * * * * KEEP UP TO DATE: Have you the 31st edition corange covered) COLLECTORS HANDBOOK? If not, you're missing some­ GLASSINE COVER ALBUM: Same album as above, excepting thing. There are 60 pages in this list, over two of which are devoted it has 70 glassine pockets for covers...... $ 2.75 to Historical Air Mail Covers. Other portions of the booklet (It's a handy, pocket-sized edition) are devoted to listings of U. S. Stamps, Christmas Seals, Albums, First ELBE CRYSTAL-CLEAR ALBUM: Unusual pocket-type ar­ Day Covers, Catalogs, Supplies, Foreign Stamps in Packets and rangement with cellulose, full-display pages. 3 7-8 x .8 3-8. $ 4.60 Publications. Ask for your 31st edition COLLECTORS HANDBOOK. It's FREE. A postal card will bring it to you. ELBE CRYSTAL-CLEAR ALBUM: Same style as above with double full-display pages Cno mounting in these). 81A x 31.'2 inches. .... $ 8.50 MOUNT YOUR COVERS: As you may recall, we have offered various Albums suitable for mounting your cover collection. Some of the albums are really outstanding, and we list them on the opposite page! Cover Albums make nice Christmas gifts, too! ELBE CRYSTAL-CLEAR ALBUM: Similar to above, with double full-display pages, size 12¥2 x 8¥2...... $12.00 BUYING & SELLING: To stay in the stamp business Cand the cover business, too) we have to keep buying and selling. As we often say, "This isn't a Museum". If you have a really fine and out­ standing collection for sale, remember that we're always interested. Prices Shown Are Postfree If you have some special wants, it won't hurt you to ask me to keep you in mind when we're breaking down fine collections, too. , Please add 25c towards postage charges for albums shipped west of the Mississippi. Yes, we use nice commemoratives in our mailings. THE DEPARTMENT STORe OF PHI LATELY is ready to J 1111 2 l\lDA\RK.JET STo •=~u=d;~;;;=;~e'i;i;~ • 9 DA\RRJISBURG, IP A\o A.A.M.S. FroDI Do"7n Under - • News from the South Pacific Reported by J. C. THOMPSON and Adapted by RICHARD L. SINGLEY • e are indebted to Mr. J.C. Thomp­ can Airways Flyfug Clipper, which left W son, writing ' in the Australian Mascot about 11:50 p. m. that night. At Stamp Monthly for the following notes: Noumea mails were transferred to the First Flight, Australia-Santo , (New new French T.R.A.P.A.S line which Hebrides). The post office had announc­ maintains the New Caledonia to New ed that mails closed on December 7, Hebrides service. Postage rates were 9d. 1947 for this flight, but on the 9th a per half ounce and it was specially an­ friend at Pan American telephoned to say nounced that Air Letter Service was that Santo would also be included in the available. Covers are backstamped Nou­ first flight. On mentioning that mails had mea, December 8, ,1947 and Vila, Dec­ closed two days earlier, he stated that ember 11. The return flight is dated the PAA flight leaving Sydney on Dec­ Vila, December 11; Sydney, December ember 10 would still catch the Noumea 17 and was carried by the P.A.A. Clipper connection. And so it proved to be. Cov­ that arrived at Mascot on December 16, ers are dated at Sydney on December 10, 1947. Noumea on the 10th and Villa and Santo Adelaide-Darwin. After taking over on the 11th. Air letters were also carried from the Guinea Airways, the T.A.A. ser­ on the return flight and along with cov­ vice started the first Government air ers are postmarked at Santo, December mails on November 1, 1947. The T.A.A. 11, 1947. plane left Parafield Aerodrome at 5130 Melbourne - Corowa-Narrandera. In a.m. and arrived in Darwin the same day. December, 1947, Trans-Australian Air­ Stops were made and mail delivered to lines announced: "Now that T.A.A. has Mount Eba, Oodnadatta, Alice Springs, become firmly established on the main Tennant Creek, Daly Waters, Katherine trunk routes, it is convinced that the and Darwin. All covers are postmarked, healthy rapid development of Australia October 31, 1947 and backstamped Nov­ can well be served by the inauguration of ember l, 1947. The return flight left country air services." So on December Darwin, Sunday, November 2 and are 29, 1947 a new service was commenced backstamped November 3. The service between Melbourne, Corowa and Nar­ is three times per week. rander. There is service three days a week to Narrandera and six days per week to New Caledonia-Wallis and Futuna, Is­ Corowa. lands. Covers are dated, Noumea, Aug­ ust 28, 1947 and Wallis, August 30, 1947. Noumea to Tahiti. Covers are post­ Covers from Wallis are dated August 30 marked Noumea, October 28, 1947 and and backstamped Noumea, August 31. backstamped Papeete (Tahiti), October Because the mail plane arrived and left 30, 1947. Within a large oval cachet are the same day it dd not give the locals these words "Premiere Liaison Aerienne much time to prepare their covers. Mails Francaise" and NOUMEA """"" PA­ sent by sea take almost a year for a reply PEETE. to be received. All covers on these ser­ Australia-New Hebrides. First flight vices bear cachets reading: "First French mails closed at Sydney on Sunday, Dec­ Air Flight - by - T. R. A . P. A. S." with ember 7, 1947 at 5 p. m. They were car­ the individual routing and the date added, ried as far as Noumea by the Pan Ameri- in French. A. A. M. S. Chapter News • FLORENCE LAMPORT KLEINERT Notes of interest: My thanks to Mrs. News of A. A. M. s. Chapters should be Bertha Anderson, Secretary of the Essex sent direct to Mrs. Kleinert at uioo Stamp Club, Chapter #25, for the three W. Ruscomb Street, Philadelphia covers with green, red · and yellow 41, Pa. · cachets printed on the envelopes and a • special stamp show cancel in blue from he Chapters are in full swing "The 17th Stampex'', held October 15th llr conducting their fall program of to 17th, 1948, at East Orange, N. J. meetings. The Gotham Stamp & Cover Club, • Chapter #8, continues to meet the sec­ Captain John Hissong Of ond and fourth Friday of each month in the Studio Room of the Hotel Times Eastern Air Lines Awarded Square, New York City. The first meet­ Air Mail Flyer's Medal ing of each month features stamp circuit books, according to G. F. Lancaster, Publicity Chairman. Postmaster General• Jesse M. Donald- A. E. McCracken, Recording Secretary, son, has awarded the Air Mail Flyer's of the Minnesota Air Mail Society, Medal of Honor to Captain John David Chapter #26, reports that the October Hissong of New Orleans, Louisiana and 12th meeting was held at the Curtis of Eastern Air Lines. Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn. Plans for the The Air Mail Flyer's Medal of Honor chapter's participation in the Minnesota's was authorized by Congress on February Centennial 1949 Stamp Exhibit were 14, 1931, to recognize air mail pilots who made. have distinguished themselves by heroism Future meetings of the Philadelphia or eii:traordinary achievement while in the Air Mail Society, Chapter #6, are plan­ air mail service. Only 9 previous awards ned to provide maximum entertainment. have been made since it was first author­ On November 11th, Club Bingo will be ized. held. A Christmas Party will be held at Captain Hissong was cited for the the December 9th meeting, with Mrs. award for extraordinary valor and Ralph Casner exhibiting "Elephants on achievement while piloting an air Stamps", an interesting collection of over mail plane on a flight from New Orleans 300 different stamps. The members en­ to New York on the night of October joyed a "Clothesline Exhibit" at the Oc­ 18, 1938. tober 14th meeting. Prizes were awarded Shortly after taking off from the air­ by popular vote as to the relative merit port at Montgomery, Alabama, bound of the exhibits. for Atlanta, Georgia, one of the engines caught fire and burned off. Unable to A membership campaign is in progress return to the Montgomery airport, for the Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Captain Hissong kept the burning plane Chapter #23, with LeRoy Coburn, Sec­ from crashing into dwellings in the dty~s retary, and George Myall, Committee residential area and succeeded in land­ Chairman, in charge. A gold medal will ing outside of Montgomery without in­ be awarded to the member securing the jury to the eleven passengers who were most members at the 1949 "Airpex". aboard. Congratulations are due this chapter for winning the "Best S.P.A. Branch Publication Award for 1948", consisting • of a fine trophy at the Society of Phila­ Send Your Auction Bid To telic Americans' Convention at Detroit in September, 1948. Admiral Johnson NOW! 58 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL postmarked, New York, N. Y., Air Mail Field, July 11, 1948, 11 a. m.

Also from the same source comes the first Icelandic Airlines flight to New York. Covers are dated August 25, 1948 at Reykjavik, Iceland and are backstamped, New York, N. Y., A. M. F., August 26, 1948. A boxed, black cachet reads, "Loftleidir, The Icelandic Airlines - Fyrsta Islenzka Aaetlunarflugid - (The First Icelandic Scheduled Flight) - REYKJAVIK - NEW YORK", in four lines.

From J. C. Thompson, writing in by RICHARD L. SINGLEY AUSTRALIAN STAMP NEWS, we learn 1022 W. Ross Si. that a British Commonwealth Pacific Lancaster, Pa. Airlines plane departed Sydney, Austral­ • ia on Sunday, April 25, 1948 with the first I((\\ n October 4, 1948, Boston, Mass. mail for the United States and Canada 'VJJ dispatc4ed to Berlin, Germany by this line. Covers noted are backstamp­ via American Overseas Airlines. Covers ed Vancouver, April 28, 1948. are backstamped, Berlin, October 6. The flight was under the command of Captain Robert 0. Siegwald. Fl RST FLIGHT Boston also dispatched to Calcutta via Istanbul, Damascus, Karachi and Delhi COVERS on October 16 on Pan American's round the world flight. Covers are postmarked, F AM-18-·­ Boston, Mass., October 16, 8 p. m. and are generally backstamped two or three New York, NY Airmail Field, days later at the respective cities. Boston or Boston Airmail Field to Barcelona, Spain. Needless to say, covers from the afore­ Each. .50 mentioned dispatches are relatively Following Subject To Receipt scarce. Barcelona to United States 1.00 After several postponements, the flight Barcelona to Lisbon, Portugal 1.00 to Barcelona, Spain by Pan American is now scheduled for November 8, 1948. Lisbon to Barcelona 1.00 The return service is to be established, We offer a very nice selection of November 10. FAM covers both old and new ...... flights • From member Henry M. Horn comes a Approvals sent against references. first New York to Zurich, Switzerland cover by SWISSAIR, the National Air­ G. C. POWELL lines of Switzerland. Covers are not back­ stamped but can be identified by the OCEAN CITY ROAD s·g~ature of the Captain who autograph­ SALISBURY, MARYLAND ed all the inaugural covers. They are NOVEMBER, 1948 59 SCADTA COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC -AIRMAILS-

MINT USED By WILLIAM T. WYNN -ON COVER - 8544 Cloverlawn, Detroit 4, Mich. FIRST FLIGHTS

Evelyn Sharp Field• at Ord, Nebraska Many Outstanding Items was dedicated on September 12. Covers From A Specialized Collection bear a cachet by Chamber of Commerce; 2100 covers mailed. This event proves a WRITE FOR FREE PRICE LIST statement made by your writer several times, and that is that if sufficient pub­ licity is given prior to an airport dedica­ tion permitting collectors to send in cov­ Walter R. GutLrie ers in advance, it will be well covered. This event had advance publicity in sev­ SEA CLIFF. NEW YORK eral publications and it is our belief this is the reason for the large number of covers being mailed. Let's have more news .for future columns. - A very few covers were mailed from Topeka, Kans. TCHAD TO THE RHINE on September 26 for the official opening of Allen Air Park. Griffiss Field at ON COVER Rome, N. Y. was dedicated on Septem­ ber 18, with a few covers, bearing no -*- markings, mailed. - Salina-Gunnison, F. Equatorial Africa ...... $2.55 Cameroun ...... 2.15 Utah dedicated its joint airport on Aug. F. West Africa ...... 2.00 28. Covers from both towns were mailed Reunion ...... 2.15 to commemorate the event. Chamber St. Pierre Miquelon ...... 2.00 of Commerce at 'IV aynesville, Mo. used F. Guiana, 1st day ...... 1.60 a sticker cachet on 438 covers mailed Martinique ...... 1.55 October 2 and 30 covers mailed October -*- 3 for a two day dedication of their joint­ INDO-CHINA IMPERFORATE ly owned airport. - Hemet, California Sanabria No. la ...... $8.75 will dedicate Ryan Field on October 23- 2a ...... 8.75 24, too late to be of help to readers of 3a ...... 8.75 4a ...... 8.75 this column, but cards have been sent 5a ...... 8.75 to all those who have cards here with 6a ...... 8.75 lla ...... B.75 your writer for such short notice news. 12a ...... B.75 We repeat there is no charge for this 13a ...... 8.75 service. 14a ...... 8.75 • • EDMOND OUEYROY 27 East 95th Street Join the A. A. M. S. I . NEW YORK 28, N. Y. OUR BOOK REVIEW • Schweizerischer LUFTPOST - nette classified as a not-issued vignette. KATALOG - Handbuch, 1949 Wartime air-leaflets are listed from both (Mr. Konrad Kreis, Stachen/Arbon, world wars with indication of date and Switzerland, President) place where they were found . In a special Part II, Zeppelin collectors Reviewed• by DR. MAX KRONSTElN will find a listing of all Zeppelin mail dropped over Switzerland and the Swiss • mail which was flown with Swiss or Lich­ What was once a small brochure has tenstein stai;nps on the various Zeppelin turned into a large handbook of some 160 flights. All cachets are illustrated. pages including hundreds of illustrations. The Swiss DOX mail and a listing of All available facts concerning Swiss the Swiss "S" overprint on Scadta stamps Air Mails have been collected by a com­ closes the handbook. mittee consisting of the foremost special­ This reviewer feels that this survey of ists in Switzerland and every fact detail­ the material which is found in the new ed has been checked with the authorities. catalogue shows better than any words of Section A is dedicated to air stamps, praise could do, that this handbook is of vignettes and air labels. The stamp sec­ the greatest value to the collector of tion begins with the 1913 air stamps and Swiss air mails. Prices are very carefully the numbering goes through from those determined. Number of stamps issued directly to the emissions from 1919 on. and of flown covers carried and the var­ All of which means that the 1913 pioneer ious special card forms together with stamps have not been numbered separate­ much more material can also be found ly from the later regular airmail stamps. in the new book. Furthermore, no "semi-official air stamps" We wish to congratulate the Swiss Air­ are designated as used and to emphasize mail Society on this work. the lack of such, a Section so headed is followed by the wdrd: "None". The 1924 • air vignettes of Grenchen, Laufen and of Philippine JOURNAL OF PHILATELY. later air meetings are listed as "unof­ Published by the Stamp and Philatelic ficiaf'. Division, Bureau of Posts, Republic of Section B lists the different types of the Philippines. Published Bi-Monthly. Subscription $1.50 per year. pioneer flights, special flights, ( 85 num­ bers), first flights, first direct flights, • crash covers, etc. Reviewed by Section C lists the various cancellations ALTON J. BLANK (regular, provislonial, and propaganda ) , Assistant Editor the various cachets for flown covers, and • for . cancelled flights, and the commemo­ The Philippine Journal of Philately, rative cachets of the automobile post of­ published by the Stamp and Philatelic fices which served at special air meet­ Division of the Bureau of Posts, Repub­ ings and expositions. There follows a col­ lic of the Philippines, is the first attempt lection of foreign cachets for first and of that government to give its stamps special air mail flights to Switzerland, and their due publicity both locally and the cachets of the Army-air detachments abroad. up to the year 1939. This highly interesting publication Secticm D is dedicated to Historic marks the first effort on the part of any aero-philatelic documents, to balloon official governmental department to fur­ cards, and to cards of very early air meet­ ther the interest of stamp collecting. ings not carried by air post transporta­ Volume 1, Number l is a handsome pub­ tion. Listed here is the 1913 Olten Vig- lication of 50 pages. Its contents reflect NOVEMBER, 1948 61 the sincere objectives of its Editors. side of news. The conversational style is rampant with humor. .Mr. Enrico Palomar, Chief, Stamp and The magazine is published bi-monthly. Philatelic Division, has an article entitled The subscription rates are $1.50 a year "What is Philately?" In it he states that (for U. S. and foreign countries). It is "Philately is not merely accumulating well illustrated. The magazine .carries a such stuff as bits of colored paper to few advertisements of stamp dealers in satisfy the instinct of hoarding. It is an .Manila. Please address subscriptions to: urge of a higher instinct." He further ex­ Philippine Journal of Philately, Bureau postulates: "-stamps are miniature re­ of Posts, .Manila. cords of the march of the human race. There is little doubt in the writer's So that one who knows something of mind that if other nations take up with their background becomes conversant Of this excellent idea of promoting stamp world affairs and man's progress." His collecting they will have to go a long saludatory statement sums up his article way to match the fine example set by and answers the question raised in the the Philippine Bureau of Posts. The title: "- the capacity to collect stamps magazine is an essential aid to collectors with understanding and delight - this is of the stamps of the Philippines. true philately." Of interest to airmail collectors is a fact-heavy story about the covers carried • on the Atlas Sky Merchant. These covers, Have You Senf Your Bids readers will remember, were distributed thru cooperation of the American Air For The A. A. M. S. Auction? .Mail Society to donors to the Damon Runyon .Memorial Cancer Fund. A check November 27 Last Chance. list of point to point coverage is included as well as intimate local details about the "Special Flight Around .Manila" made at the time the Sky Merchant stopped in the Philippine Capital on its AERO-STATIONERY Round-the-World Flight. Bahama 7d Lettersheet-·- .25 The magazine is chock full of readable Canada 15c old style LS ...... 25 items. Space limits us to but a brief lOc small LS Montreal .20 mention of titles such as: "A B C Primer 15c small LS Montreal .25 of Philately" by Mr. Severino N. Luna Great Britain 6d LS Geo VI .20 (who incidentally is a most aggressive 6d Olympic Games LS . . . . .30 exponent of philately in Manila); a Guatemala 1930 Postal Memo check list of Philippine Stamps issued (Scott type AP3) 6 values. since the Liberation as well as a list of Folds into an envelope ...... 90 stamps available in the Stamp and Phila­ telic Division; "Our History as Reflected Liberia lOc LS on British form .80 on Stamps" by .Mr. Petronilo Quinones, Norway 60 ore LS Type I .45 and an article on the forthcoming Libr­ Palestine 25 mills LS Type II ... 60 ary Rehabilitation Stamp issue for crea­ Portugal 3.50E air envelope .35 tive Leisure by .Mr. Eulogio B. Rodriguez, are but a few of the informative items Various others in small quantities to be found. are reserved for appr-0val clients. May I send you a selection? American Airmail Society member Pablo .M. Esperidion has his column PAUL NEWMAN "Postscraparium" on two pages of the issue. Told as only he can tell them are 801 NM 114fh St. philatelic news items that reflect a keen MIAMI 38. FLORIDA mind that appreciates the human interest SALES MANAGER PORTER DISCUSSES A. A. M. S. SAL~ DEPARTMENT

EDITOR'S• NOTE: The Sales Department ls an important adjunct of the AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY. Many members fail to use it. Many others, through ignorance of its functions and rules either thoughtlessly ABUSE it or fall short of achieving maximum benefits from it. Because of this we have asked Sales Manager, Charles P. Porter to give us a frank discussion of some of HIS difficulties. -L. B. G .

he American Air Mail Society op­ • and lists will not be mailed without pre­ T erates a Sales Department divi­ payment, except to our foreign members. sion as a service to its members to aid Your sales will be dependent on two them in disposing of their duplicate things; your material and your prices. material and in building up their collec­ Most A.A.M.S. members have been air tions through the medium of purchases mail collectors for at least several years. from their fellow members. Only air mail Their collections average well over 50% material can be accepted in the circuits. complete. Your material must be of Circuits are made up and distributed better grade stamps or covers or of re­ under four general categories:­ cent issues to sell well. On prices, most !. Mint air mail stamps. members receive and have available one 2. Used air mail stamps. or more dealers' price lists. Paying no rent 3. C. A. M. covers. and advertising, you should be able to 4. F. A. M. covers. undersell such lists and if you cannot you Specialties such as Zepps, foreign first will have very few sales to show in re­ flights, dedications, etc. are included turn for mounting your stamps and offer­ with the FAM or CAM circuits or mail­ ing them in the circuits. ed separately to the members requesting Single mint stamps from sets, or them. broken mint sets are very hard to sell. If interested in BUYING, secure an The only possible buyer is one who needs application card from the Manager and that particular stamp or stamps to com­ return it properly marked. If the type plete a set. Mint sets generally are pur­ of stamps or covers' you request are in chased complete and seldom can you the circuits, you will receive them in find a collector willing to start mint sets your proper turn. If you have requested with individual items. Ask yourself when special items and do not receive a cir­ pricing - "'Would I be anxious to buy cuit within a reasonable length of time, this st~p ~,t this price?" If you can it means such material is not presently answer Yes , your stamps and covers in the circuits. Remember, when you ap­ are probably priced right. ply for a circuit, you are obligating your­ Sellers entering books and packets self to follow the rules and will forward must leave them with the Sales Depart­ circuits within five days of recipt. For ment a reasonable length of time. The the time being, while postage, customs selling season is from early September and currency regulations are very strict, thru May. We seldom start new circuits it is not practicable to mail circuits out­ after April 1st to a large member group side the limits of the United States. and books reaching the manager after If interested in SELLING, write the that date will have little or no circula­ sales manager for books in which to tion until the following Fall. Many mem­ mount your stamps or packet lists for bers have been very successful in selling mounting your covers, enclosing check thru the circuits and we have many or postal note to cover the number re­ satisfied buyers. Your Society is the place quested. The hooks, holding 120 stamps to seII your duplicates and if you wish are 20c each and the packet list, accom­ to build up your coilection a few circuits modating 25 covers are 2 for 5c. Books will help you. NOVEMBER. 1948 63 Al RPOST NOTES FROM SCANDINAVIA HANDLING • A. A. M. S. AUCTION by THORSTEN INGELOFF ~ • Several Scandinavian countries are us- ing slogan cancellations to promote the use of Air Mail and in the case of Nor­ way, the Air Letter Sheet, known over here as AEROGRAM. A new Norway machine cancel reads "BRUK AEROGRAM - DET ER BIL­ LIG OG - KOMMER FORT FRAM" which means in translation "USE AERO­ GRAM - IT IS CHEAP AND ARRIVES QUICKLY." In Denmark all mail which weighs less than 5 grams and which is destined for New York. or other points in the U.S.A. is sent by air provided it is prepaid the surface rate. In order to advise the public of this service a slogan cancellation was brought into use reading, in translation, "5 GRAM LETTERS ARE FLOWN GRATIS TO NEW YORK". This was confusing in that the public got the idea that NO POSTAGE AT ALL was re­ q$ed on this mail! The current slogan now reads, "LETTERS UP TO 5 GRAMS • Rear Admiral Jesse G. Johnson, USN, ARE AIR FORWARDED (AT SUR­ Ret'd., A.A.M.S. Auction Manager. Auction F ACE RATE) .COPENHAGEN-NEW Bids Close November 27 - Have You YORK". Any Airpost Journal reader de­ Sent ~ours? siring these cancels may send 2lc for the Norway cancel, 27c for either of the CAB Holds West Coast: Hearings Denmark cancels or 45c for the pair, to Thorsten Ingeloff, Malmtorgsgatan 11, • Karlstad, Sweden and they will be sent Hearings before. an Examiner of the postpaid. Please remit in U. S. mint com­ Civil Aeronautics Board of Pan Ameri­ memoratives. can Airways' application for extension of 0 0 0 its Alaska flights to Portland, San Fran­ The Norwegian Aero Club organized cisco and Los Angeles and for the in­ the observance of an Air Week during clusion of Anchorage as a co-terminal the period September 9-16. An exposition with Fairbanks began in Anchorage, of civil and military flying ·history and Alaska, October 25. material was held at Kontraskjaeret near Pan American now has one-carrier ser­ Oslo and the Post Office Deparbnent vice only from Seattle to Alaska, which provided an air post exhibit and a special leaves the other main cities of the West post office, complete with special cancel­ Coast with no direct flight routes to lation, reading "NORSI} AERO KLUBB America's northernmost territory. - date - FLYUTSTILLING 1948". The · Representatives of the West Coast original letter box from · the "LITTLE cities journeyed to Anchorage for the NORWAY" flying camp in Canada, C.A.B. hearing, to cite the advantages where so many Norwegian pilots were the proposed route would bring to their trained for World War II, was on display. communities and the Pacific in general. Supplements To The American Air Mail Catalogue 1947 Edition • Supplements to th.is Catalogue will appear regularly in THE AIRPOST TOURNAL. Users possessing additional information for listings or correc­ tions are asked to communicate with the appropriate Section Chairman. A list of such Chairmen will be found at page BOO of Volume One. Volume One of the Catalogue available from most Philatelic dealers or from THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGU)E, Albion, Penn'a at $4, plus 27c postage East of Chicago, 38c elsewhere. Volume II in preparation.

- ELEVENTH SUPPLEMENT - • UNITED STATES CONTRACT AIR MAIL ROUTES IV-I • CONTRACT Al R MAIL ROUTE NO. 34 (REVISED ROUTE NO. 2)

NEW SPUR SERVICES November 1, 1947

In September 1947 the Civil Aeronautics Board authorized T. W. A. to inaugurate two new spurs of Revised Route No. 2, one from Ft. Wayne to Pittsburgh via Lima, Marion, and Mansfield, Ohio; the other from Dayton to Cleveland via Springfield, Marion, and Mansfield, Ohio. Service on the first of these spurs was inaugurated on November l, 1947 from Ft. Wayne to Mansfield to Pittsburgh and from Pittsburgh to Mansfield. The first flights on the Cleveland spur were non-stop between Indianapolis and Cleveland; service from Dayton to Mansfield and Cleveland and return took place later in the day. A circular unofficial map-type cachet was used on covers at Cleveland and Indianapolis, while an official cachet was provided at Mansfield. Mansfield cov.ers to the Southeast are postmarked at· 4 P.M.; those to the Northeast and Southwest at 10 A.M.

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Type 34v

Cachet-Type 34v. Pilots-C. D. Barnard, E. A. Feazel, Warren G. Malvick, Adolph M. Urbas.

34SE52 Ft. Wayne-(no cachet) 3.50 34SE53 Mansfield-(blue) (About 300) .50 34NW54 Pittsburgh-(no cachet) 3.50 f. Airfield-·(no cachet) 3.50 34NE55 Indianapolis-(no cachet)-Barnard ( 69 pieces) 2.25 f. Airfield-( no cachet) ( 68 pieces) 2.25 34SW56 Cleveland-(no cachet)-Feasel (3503 pieces) .25 f. Airfield-(no cachet) ( 132 pieces) 1.25 34NE53 Mansfield-(blue)-Urbas ( 1900 pieces) .25 34SW53 Mansfield-(blue)-Malvick (2750 pieces) .25 34NE57 Dayton-(no cachet) .75

ZANESVILLE, OHIO AND RICHMOND, INDIANA EMBRACED Noveinber 1, 5, 1947

Zanesville, Ohio was embraced in the main route between Pittsburgh and Columbus on November 1. Richmond, Indiana, also scheduled to be embraced in the main route on Novem­ ber 1, had its first service deferred to November 5.

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Cachets-Types 34w and 34x. Pilots-R. F. Baar, Wren McMains, McNaughton.

34E5B Zanesville-(green)-Baar (2441 pieces) .25 34W5B Zanesville-(green)-McMains ( 791 pieces) .25 34E59 Richmond-(magenta)-McNaughton ( 513 pieces) .25 34W59 Richmond-(magenta)-McMains ( 6688 pieces) .25

ALLENTOWN-BETHLEHEM, PA. ADDED November 29, 1947

Effective the above date Allentown and Bethlehem, using the same airport, were added to Revised Route No. 2 between Pittsburgh and Newark. The Post Office Depart­ ment reported that no covers were dispatched east from Bethlehem on the first flight of this date. N~ official cachet was provided but an unofficial pictorial cachet was ap­ plied at both points.

Pilots-H. F. Roegner, David S. Spain.

34W60 Allentown-(no cachet)-Roegner (2277 pieces) .25 34E60 Allentown-(no cachet)-Spain ( 152 pieces) 1.00 34W61 Bethlehem-(no cachet)-Roegner (2255. pieces) .25

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE ADDED November 29, 1947

On the same date Wilmington, Del. was made a stop on Revised Route No. 2 and Revised Route No. 25. As covers for the first westbound service on both routes were postmarked 6AM; for positive identification AM 2 covers should be addressed to Harris­ burg, Pittsburgh or beyond. Service was through the New Castle County Airport which was also dedicated on this date. No official cachet was provided but a combination first flight and dedication unofficial cachet was applied.

Pilots-F. E. McKee, H. H. Myers.

34W62 Wilmington-(no cachet)-Myers (7542 pieces) .25 34E62 Wilmington-(no cachet)-McKee ( 70 pieces) 2.25

ADDITION OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO March 1, 1948

On the above date Springfield was made a stop on the main route of Revised Route No. 2 and also added to the Dayton to Cleveland spur. No official cachet was pro­ vided but an unofficial cachet was applied. Postmarks: Westbound 11:00 A. M., East­ bound 7:30 A. M., and to Spur, 12 M.

Pilots-Thomas Duffy, Sereno S. Tanner, Adolph Urbas.

34W63 Springfield-(no cachet)-Tanner ( 309 pieces) .50 34E63 Springfield-(no cachet)-Duffy (1791 pieces) .25 34NE63 Springfield-(no cachetJ-Urbas ( 540 pieces) .25

QUINCY, ILLINOIS ADDED March 4, 1948

Although scheduled to take place March 1st, the inauguration of air mail service at Quincy was delayed until March 4th. The postmaster at Quincy was not informed of NOVEMBER, 1948 67

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the delay until after the eastbound philatelic covers were cancelled March 1st. but west­ bound covers were properly cancelled March 4th. No cachet was applied.

Pilots-R. R. Catron, Clarence Lunde. 34W64 Quincy-(no cachet)-Catron • (146 pieces) 1.00 34E64 Quincy-(no cachet)-Lunde (328 pieces) .45

ADDITION OF SANTE FE, NEW MEXICO April 25, .1948

Sante Fe was added to Revised Route No. 2 between Winslow and Amarillo on April 25, 1948. The first westbound flight was via the afternoon :flight instead of the morning flight as scheduled. Westbound covers to Winslow are known postmarked both 9:30AM: and 3:30PM; Eastbound are postmarked 9:00A.M. There was no official cachet, but TWA provided an unofficial cachet.

Pilots-R. C. Catron, K. F. Marks.

34W65 Sante Fe-(no cachet)-Marks ( 184 pieces) .75 34E65 Sante Fe-(no cachet)-Catron (3128 pieces) .25

Al R MAIL ROUTE NO.. 38

ADDITION OF PRESCOTT, ARIZONA November 1, 1947 Nine years after original scheduling, Prescott was added to the route between fuhil~~k. and Boulder City. The Post Office supplied an official cachet which was applied

Cachet-Type 38c. Pilots--Jack Southard, John S. Wallace.

38N4 Prescott-(black)-Wallace (3305 pieces) .25 3884 Prescott-( black)-Southard ( 892 pieces) .25 PRESIDENT M. 0. WARNS 4639 N. Woodburn Mrn Milwaukee 11, Wisc. ~ IL~~ ADVISORY BOARD (Fonner Presidents) HARRY A. TRUBY L. B. GATCHELL GEORGE w. ANGERS WILLIAM R. .ALLEY ~I~ M~ll HERBERT H. GRIFFIN RICHARD L. SINGLEY GEORGE D. KINGDOM

VICE-PRESIDENTS ~~LlfH LOUISE s. DAVIS ERNEST A. KEim J. P. v. HEINMULLER PERHAM c. NAHL

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ORDER NEW AIR LEITER SHEET CATALOGUE $1.00. postpaid. N 0 W ! ! 70 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL JACK KNIGHT AIRPEX DIARY OF ORVILLE WRIGHT SHOW, NOVEMBER 13 AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS '1 • The beautiful Edgewater Beach Hotel In honor of the centenary of the Ameri- on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago can Association for the Advancement of will be the scene of the 1948 AIRPEX of Science on the occasion of its annual the Jack Knight Air Mail Society. The meeting in Washington during the week show will feature a highly selected in­ of September 13-20, the Library of Cong­ vitation exhibition of members. The An­ ress exhibited a page from Orville nual Meeting of the Society, a Benefit Wright's diary, describing the first suc­ Auction, and a program commemorating cessful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Caro­ the 30th Anniversary of the U. S. Air lina. The first public showing of this Mail Service. Guest speaker at the annual unique historical document was made dinner will be Capt. Ben Lipsner, First possible through the courtesy of Messrs. Post Office Superintendent of the U. S. Harold S. Miller and Harold W. Steeper, Airmail Service. executors of the estate of the late Orville Wright. . Captain Lipsner will exhibit many of The diary was on view in the South his pioneer souvenirs and pieces of the Gallery on the second floor of the Main early airman's equipment from the old Library Building. It was opened to the muslin and wire days of open cockpit entry of December 17, 1903 - the day mail flying much of which are of his of the first flight. Orville Wright relates original design. in simple, factual style the events of the All exhibits will be housed in the Ber­ momentous day in which man first achiev­ wyn Room and open to the public at no ed free, controlled and sustained flight. admission cost between the hours of 1 "When we got up a wind of between 20 and 25 miles was blow­ and 8 p. m. Guides will be available to ing from the north. We got the all gueots and visitors during these hours. machine out early and put out the signal for the man at the station. Before we were quite ready, John The 1948 AIRPEX seals are now T. Daniels, W. S. Dough, A. D. ready for collectors. This year's seal is an Etheridge, W. C. Brinkley of Man­ teo, and Johnny Moore, of Nags aero philatelic novelty in the form af a Head arrived. After running the en­ silver overprint on the red and blue gine and propellers a few minutes to get them in working order, I barber pole "30th .ANNIVERSARY - got the machine at 10:35 for the AIR MAIL - 1918-1948" commemora­ first trial. The wind according to our annemometers at this time was tive air mail etiquette of the Air Trans­ blowing a little over 20 miles ( cor­ port Association of the United States rected) 27 miles according to the Government annemometer at Kit­ certified airlines. The seals are 5 for 25c, ty Hawk. On stopping the rope the postpaid. machine started off increasing speed to probably 7 or 8 miles. The machine lifted from the track All orders received on or before Nov. just as it was entering the fourth 13th will be mailed out to the purchasers mile. Mr. Daniels took a picture just as it left the tracks. I found by AIR MAIL in a special cacheted cover the control of the front rudder an& with an extraordinary philatelic quite difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center cancellation. Address all orders to Earl and thus had a tendency to turn H. Wellman, Jack Knight Air Mail Soc­ itself when started so that the rud­ der was turned too far on one side iety, Brookfield, Illinois. and then too . . . "

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